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La Sultana Marrakech

Luxury and a sense of history are the hallmarks of La Sultana. Staying here is a real experience, considering the hotel’s bombastic décor and painstaking three-year restoration, which involved the Historical Monuments Organisation.

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£314per night

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Location

9/10

Perfectly located inside the Imperial city walls in the ‘golden triangle’ between the royal palaces and the Saadian Tombs. The Djemaa el-Fna is a five-10 minute walk north. You can catch taxis at the Bab Agnaou gate.

Style & character

8/10

Modelled on the Bahia Palace, La Sultana channels a Moroccan maximalist style. Decorative techniques jostle for attention from zellij-style courtyards and bathrooms to carved cedarwood shutters and ceilings. The painted, gilded, carved, tiled and polished finishes create an opulent and exotic atmosphere, which is only enhanced by the embarrassment of facilities, including a misted solarium, a delicate latticework garden gazebo, a heated pool and a pink-hued spa with bathing pools set amid a colonnaded hammam which conjures visions of Cleopatra at bath time.

Food & drink

9/10

This is what it means to be spoiled for choice. Do you dine in the lantern-lit courtyard, or up on the terrace overlooking the Saadian Tombs? Should you opt for the Mediterranean menu or the Moroccan Discovery menu? Would you prefer the house made duck foie gras, or the Moroccan bastilla (pigeon pie layered in filo pastry) so light it could blow away. Prices are high for the medina, but the food and setting are perfect. The additional 150 dirham (£11) cost for the buffet breakfast is unwarranted.

Value for money

7/10

First-floor suites are better value than ground-floor rooms and the add-on price of breakfast is annoying for a five-star hotel. Double rooms from £216, suites from £295, excluding breakfast. Free Wi-Fi.